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Mario: I think I tried to pet a horse while I was walking off an anxious knot of thoughts in 2021 and it stressed me out, cause like, what if it bit me? Switched the horse for a dog, bing bang bong, lil metaphor for getting comfy with Bad Feelings. I rewrote it too many times and never thought to add in a bit where I get to breathe.

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You’re here again with hackles raised
Muddy pawprints on yellow blanket
Between houseplants and himalayan salt lamp

You bare your teeth and growl
You’re quivering and your eyes are wide
So I try to hold your gaze as I approach

And I smile, and all the while I wonder
If smiling means anything to you
If you can even perceive much difference
Between all the possible facial expressions

Its kind of doubtful as you’re still growling
So I raise my hand so you can sniff me
And acquaint yourself with my scent

Now outstretched fingers are a bit too much
Like an offer of five plump sausages, but also
I don’t fancy waving a fist in your face

So I go with a kind of loosely-clenched hand
With my thumb straight
Alongside my bent index finger
And offer it up to your damp snuffling nose
At the pace of a glacier advancing

And my heart is pounding so hard I can hear it
As I break every record for how long a human
Has ever held their breath, by a sizable margin

And my guts are in knots and my thoughts are racing
And every muscle is twitching or tense:
I know what you’re like, we could be stuck
Like this for days

But then your growl dies down
And I feel the cool wet tip of your nose
On the knuckle of my middle finger
And somehow succeed in not jumping
Out of my skin

I open my hand out across your forehead
And I feel like I’m floating in a dream
As your posture softens
And you snuffle into my wrist

I feel light headed and I want to laugh out loud
But i’m still keen not to alarm you
So I lower myself to sit
Next to you on the bed

I ruffle the scruff of your neck in a moment
Of almost unparalleled courage
And stroke your back as you move yourself
To rest your head on my thigh

And now you seem to be almost completely at ease with me
I feel a buoyant lightness in my chest, an utter peace
As I take this chance I never thought I’d have to know you better

And I try to let you see as much of me as I can show
In the hope that we might be enduring friends
Then I begin to wonder if you’ve discovered the pasta sauce on my jeans
Whether you’re just resting because you need to rest

And I realise that your understanding of me
Is just my understanding of your understanding of me
And I cannot be sure that I understand at all

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from Incredible Longboats: Relics 2019 - 2023, released May 5, 2023

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Soup Review Sheffield, UK

Soup Review are what happens when South Yorkshire meets South Coast, when folk tradition meets anti-folk downbeat self- deprecation.
Chris Delamere is the son of a morris dancer. Mario D’Agostino arrived in Sheffield from Weymouth.
Together they write songs that masquerade as comic, but on closer listening reveal themselves to be a deep and poignant exploration of the human condition. ... more

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